[American in Israel]

So strange, she don’t look arabic.

[righttackle44]

So strange, she don’t look arabic.

Flash from the Free Republic Department of Anthropology.

[Lent]

Wouldn’t see Arabic until the latter part of the 7th century with the Jihad and Arabization of Egypt. The mummy is 1900 years old. The person in the upper class likely reflects the Hellenization of Egyptian leadership after the death of Alexander the Great and maybe even Roman since its after the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Would be my guess.

[RJS1950]

She doesn’t look “Egyptian” because ethnically she probably isn’t.

The mummy is from the Ptolemaic period when the Greek/Macedonian Ptolemy family ruled Egypt. Cleopatra was a Ptolemy. It was during this period that coffins were frequently decorated with an image of the dead person.